The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star will defend their reporting of the Rob Ford crack tape story and an article it spawned before the Ontario Press Council today. The Star's original reporting of the attempt to acquire the alleged video and the Globe's profile of Doug Ford's as a hash dealer in the 1980s are the focus of the hearings. The mayor and his brother were asked to speak at the hearings but neither has responded. The council has no legal authority over the newspapers.

Rob Ford isn't happy about the upcoming appointment process that will replace former deputy mayor Doug Holyday. On his Sunday radio show, the mayor said it was "absolutely insane" that council opted not to hold a byelection in Ward 3. "This whole process stinks. I don't like it, I don't feel comfortable with it," he said.

The maker of the Sam the Record Man sign and the computer system that controls the lights on the outside of Honest Ed's says he is sad the famous neon records are is stuck in limbo. Jack Markle is one of 1,000 people who have signed a petition calling on the city to hold Ryerson to its end of the deal and hang the $16,000 sign on its new Student Learning Centre. "It would be a pity and a shame to have (Sam's sign) come down," he told the Star.